Associate Professor Nitin Verma AM FRANZCO, MD, MMeD, Dip NBE

Associate Professor Nitin Verma is a leading ophthalmologist with a special interest in retinal diseases and has published and presented more than 100 papers. He is Head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Royal Hobart Hospital, Clinical Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Tasmania and Sydney, and is in private practice at Hobart Eye Surgeons.

Associate Professor Verma is a Board Member and Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO), and Board Member of RANZCO Eye Foundation and the national Hospitaller for St John Ambulance Australia. He is also the Honorary Consul in Tasmania for Timor Leste. He was awarded the Order of Australia in 2010 for his service to ophthalmology.

Associate Professor Verma is the Chair of the Research Committee and a member of the Medical Committee.